*Dally*
I had to go, I couldn't see the kid like that!
I jammed my hands in my pockets as I cross the street, without even looking both ways. I heard someone honk their horn and call me a "Crazy Hood!" Nothing new, why should I even bother…
My mind was on the kid in that hospital room surround by tubes and shit…he shouldn't be there. He's so young! So fucking young!
Those damn doctors, they say that he'll never be the same…some stuff won't work for him anymore, some shit like that. Doctors aren't good for anything! They weren't good in New York and their not good in Tulsa.
I took a balled up fist from my pocket and hit the trunk of an old tree. Damn that smarts! I shook my hand hissing. It hurted…but fuck I didn't care.
"Ponyboy…" I whispered, I looked up to find myself in front of the Curtis's place. I walked inside meeting a loud silence
…loud silence. I thought people were crazy when they said that. But it was true! Hell, things can be so quiet the it hurts your ears.
"Damn kid…" I sighed. I had to get out, I wasn't use to this…there was always some kind of loud noise. I wasn't use to this at all. I left the house slamming the door behind myself.
I was back walking again.
I past the movie house just as a show was letting out, I guessed, Since people were piling out the exits. Ponyboy loved movies…would he still like them if he wakes up? I mentally kicked myself. "Stop thinking like that Dallas."
That's when I saw the broad from last night at the drive in. She looked over at me and gave me ones of those nasty looks that girls give you when they hated your guts, and that other chick, Marsha, or something, just giggled. I didn't say or do anything…which was unusually.
"Dallas Winston!"
Fuck…did she have to use my whole name?
"What?" I growled. "Gonna throw another coke in my face?" Another unusually thing, when it came to cute looking chicks like that Cherry girl, I'd let bye gone's be bye gone's and go right back to flirting and shit. But not now…
She held up her hands to show that they were empty. "What's wrong with you-oh my gosh!" She covered her mouth and turned to Marsha, then back to me "I didn't wanna believe it…everyone's been talking about it."
I narrowed my eyes, trying to understand what she was saying:
Alright, she heard about what happened to Ponyboy but she didn't wanna believe it until she heard from one of the guys?….chicks go figure them out.
I didn't wanna hear what she had to say, I took out a cigarette and turned to leave while lighting it.
"Would you mind if we went with you to see him?" Marsha asked.
"I'm not going back there." I took a puff and continued walking. With was useless since they followed me.
"Why not? Your his friend aren't you?"
That did it. "Yes he's my friend! What'd you do if you got a friend lying in some fuckin' bed fighting for his life and those damned doctors tellin' you if he'd ever wake up he'd never be the same again! How'd you take it if some young kid you're at the movies with is laughin' and playin' then just hours later he's got brain damage and could die!?" I looked at her, "and all because of mother fuckin' Socs!"
She looked as if she'd been slapped, and I didn't care. "Da-Dally, I'm sorry."
"Shove it!" I spat not caring where, and stormed away.
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Sorry the whole Cherry thing was confusing. I guess. Well…yea Sorry for errors